Famous quotes containing the word sang:
“I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“I respect the ways of old folks, but the blood of a rooster or a goat cannot turn the seasons, change the course of the clouds and fill them up with water like bladders. The other night, at the ceremony for Legba, I danced and sang my fill: I am a black man, no? and I enjoyed it like a true Negro should. When the drums beat, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel the itch in my hips and up and down my legs, I have got to join the party. But that is all.”
—Jacques Roumain (19071945)
“Money is good and a girl might be better,
No matter what happens and who takes the fall,
But a good strong causeMthe rope gave a jerk there,
No more sang he, for his throat was too small;
But he kicked before he died,
He did it out of pride.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)